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Re: Silence "potential leak warning" for create function?


  • Subject: Re: Silence "potential leak warning" for create function?
  • From: Gerd Knops <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:01:32 -0500

On May 17, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Luke Scott wrote:

> Given the following code (as an example):
>
> - (CGImageRef)createImage
> {
>     CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
>
>     CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL,
>                                                  100,
>                                                  100,
>                                                  8,
>                                                  0,
>                                                  colorSpace,
>                                                  kCGBitmapByteOrder32Little | kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipFirst);
>
>     CGImageRef imageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);
>
>     CGContextRelease(context);
>     CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
>
>     return imageRef;
> }
>
> - (void)someFunction
> {
>     CGImageRef image = [self createImage];
>
>     CGImageRelease(image);
> }
>
>
> I get "Potential leak of an object" on "return imageRef;" and "Incorrect decrement of the reference count" on "CGImageRelease(image)".
>
> How do I tell Xcode that "createImage" is a "create" function and that it's passing responsibility of releasing what is returned to the caller?
>
In ObjcC a "new" prefix behaves like a "create" prefix in the Carbon world.  So changing "-createImage" to "-newImage" should do the trick.

Gerd

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